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Sandy beaches account for approximately a third of the world's ice-free coastlines. These sandy shorelines are responsible ...

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, ...

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Bats are reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses, such as Ebola and coronaviruses. These pathogens can spread to humans ...

A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples from more than 20 field studies around the globe indicates that ...

University students today face a confusing mix of messages about failure. They hear from a variety of sources, sometimes ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy ...

Using data from the Magellan Clay telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers have investigated a ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by ...

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals ...

Patches of the sun's surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can ...